Industry Survey Shows Changes on eClinical Horizon

The 2017 eClinical Landscape Study: Assessing Data Management Practices, Performance, and Challenges from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, reviews the state of data management in life sciences with an in-depth look at the insights and opinions of clinical data management professionals at more than 250 companies, including sponsors and CROs. One finding is while the industry expects to leverage a greater range of patient data in clinical trials, today companies are primarily managing eCRF data in their primary EDC system. In three years, 93% of respondents aim to use ePRO and eCOA as sources, which currently comprises only 4% of the total data managed in EDC. This is the second report and is sponsored by Veeva Systems.

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